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Tag: Retro review

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 borgeditor

Retro review–Ian Fleming’s holiday James Bond novel, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

July 10, 2022August 30, 2022 borgeditor

TRON–Landmark sci-fi, visual effects achievement celebrates 40th anniversary

April 14, 2022January 2, 2023 borgeditor

Retro review–Ian Fleming’s novel Thunderball has it all

December 26, 2021December 24, 2021 borgeditor

Lady in the Lake–You are the star in this classic noir film as fantastic a Christmas movie as Die Hard

July 26, 2021July 23, 2021 borgeditor

Castle in the Air–Donald E. Westlake’s brilliantly funny heist classic returns to print

July 15, 2021July 12, 2021 borgeditor

Retro review–Raymond Chandler’s early hardboiled crime novel, The Big Sleep

March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 borgeditor

Retro review–Erle Stanley Gardner’s Shills Can’t Cash Chips, a twisty, fun, hard-boiled crime story

February 11, 2021May 27, 2021 borgeditor

Retro read–Philip K. Dick’s look at life in 1950s San Francisco, The Broken Bubble

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 borgeditor

Retro review–Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man, and a TCM marathon of Nick, Nora, and Asta for New Year’s Eve

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 borgeditor

Retro review–Erle Stanley Gardner’s unpublished, “lost” Cool & Lam novel, The Knife Slipped

February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 borgeditor

Retro fix–Outland, Sean Connery’s stint as a cop in a space Western

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 borgeditor

Retro read–Ian Fleming’s seventh James Bond novel, Goldfinger becomes one of his best-known stories

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 borgeditor

Retro read–Abraham Lincoln returns as an android in Philip K. Dick’s novel, We Can Build You

January 4, 2020January 7, 2020 borgeditor

Retro fix–Vertigo, Boileau and Narcejac’s novel that inspired the Hitchcock film classic

September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 borgeditor

Retro review–Jodie Foster’s dark and moody horror tale, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, is a fall classic

February 8, 2019February 19, 2019 borgeditor

Retro review–W.P. Kinsella′s baseball classic, Shoeless Joe, a deeper dive into the story that became Field of Dreams

May 7, 2018May 7, 2018 borgeditor

Retro review–Fleming’s fourth Bond novel, Diamonds Are Forever

October 18, 2017May 27, 2021 borgeditor

Retro Review–The 25th anniversary of Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch, the novel adapted by Quentin Tarantino into Jackie Brown

September 5, 2017June 29, 2018 borgeditor

Retro review–Close Encounters of the Third Kind on the big screen again and as epic as ever

July 30, 2017July 30, 2017 borgeditor

Retro Review–Intrigue and amnesia in noir classic “Somewhere in the Night”

April 30, 2017May 27, 2021 borgeditor

Retro review–Double Indemnity writer James M. Cain’s last, “lost” novel, The Cocktail Waitress

March 18, 2017 borgeditor

Retro Review–Fletch author Gregory Mcdonald’s kidnapping thriller, Snatched

January 16, 2017January 15, 2017 borgeditor

Retro review–Sinner Man, Lawrence Block’s lost, first crime novel

January 20, 2015May 27, 2021 borgeditor

Retro review–A look at Michael Keaton in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown

January 19, 2015June 29, 2018 borgeditor

Retro review–John Hughes’ Mr. Mom, a Michael Keaton comedy classic

January 18, 2015June 29, 2018 borgeditor

Retro review–A look at Michael Keaton in Ron Howard’s Night Shift

January 10, 2015January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review–PKD’s “Now Wait for Last Year”

December 19, 2014December 21, 2020 borgeditor

Retro review — Our favorite version of a Christmas classic

August 15, 2014June 29, 2018 borgeditor

Retro review–Original The Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D, now on Blu-ray

July 6, 2014September 2, 2018 borgeditor

Retro review–Steven Spielberg’s classic “Jaws” on the big screen, 39 years later

June 12, 2014January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review–A fifth of Bond, Fleming’s From Russia with Love

May 4, 2014January 2, 2023 borgeditor

Retro review–The Spy Who Loved Me: Fleming at his worst

May 1, 2014January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review—Grave Descend, one of Michael Crichton’s “lost” adventure novels

March 27, 2014March 27, 2014 borgeditor

Retro review–Ian Fleming’s first novel adapted to film, Doctor No

January 11, 2014January 29, 2014 borgeditor

Retro review–One of Michael Crichton’s “lost” crime thrillers, Zero Cool

October 21, 2013September 1, 2018 borgeditor

Retro review–“Scratch One,” one of eight “lost” Michael Crichton novels coming to bookstores

September 21, 2013January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Because You’ve Never Really Seen “The Wizard of Oz”

August 29, 2013August 31, 2013 borgeditor

Retro-recommendation–Sneakers and River Phoenix, 20 years later

April 26, 2013January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Best of the Best retro review–The theatrical release of The Best of Both Worlds

March 13, 2013January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review–Nothing Lasts Forever, the novel that became Die Hard

March 11, 2013January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review–Philip José Farmer’s steampunk sequel “The Wind Whales of Ishmael”

December 29, 2012January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review–The Warlord of the Air, the proto-steampunk classic

November 10, 2012November 10, 2012 borgeditor

Retro review–Mike Grell’s James Bond graphic novel, “Permission to Die”

September 21, 2012September 24, 2012 borgeditor

Retro review–TCM’s screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense thriller The Birds

September 6, 2012January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review–The Man Who Japed, Philip K. Dick’s third novel

August 31, 2012January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review–Moonraker, Fleming’s third James Bond novel

June 3, 2012January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review–Philip K. Dick’s second novel, The World Jones Made

May 28, 2012January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review–Live and Let Die, Fleming’s second Bond novel

April 11, 2012January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review: Ratking, Michael Dibdin’s first Inspector Zen novel

March 21, 2012January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Best of the Best Retro Review: Doctor Who’s “Blink”

February 28, 2012January 10, 2015 borgeditor

Retro review–Philip K. Dick’s action-packed debut novel, Solar Lottery

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